{"id":44778,"date":"2022-02-22T20:59:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=44778"},"modified":"2022-10-12T14:51:43","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T14:51:43","slug":"lake-effect-snow-in-kansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/44778","title":{"rendered":"Lake effect snow in Kansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/220222_suomiNPP_noaa20_viirs_trueColorRGB_falseColorRGB_KS_lake_effect_snow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/220222_suomiNPP_noaa20_viirs_trueColorRGB_falseColorRGB_KS_lake_effect_snow_anim.gif\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">VIIRS True Color and False Color RGB images from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>VIIRS True Color and False Color RGB images from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed narrow swaths of lake effect snow cover &#8212; which appeared as shades of cyan in the False Color images &#8212; downwind of Milford Lake (located NW of Junction City) and Turtle Creek Lake (located NNW of Manhattan) in northeastern Kansas on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20220222.html\"><strong>22 February 2022<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A sequence of Tulsa radar 0.5-degree base reflectivity images at 30-minute intervals (from 0700-1800 UTC) showed the lake effect bands streaming southeastward from those 2 lakes &#8212; followed by a toggle between Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color and False Color RGB images at 1903 UTC <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>. A northwesterly flow of cold arctic air (in the teens to single digits F) across the still-unfrozen water of the lakes picked up enough moisture to create narrow cloud bands that produced the accumulating snowfall.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/220222_radar_suomiNPP_viirs_trueColorRGB_falseColorRGB_KS_lake_effect_snow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/ks_radar-20220222_133000.png\" width=\"640\" height=\"310\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Radar reflectivity (0700-1800 UTC) + Suomi-NPP VIIRS True Color and False Color RGB images at 1903 UTC [click to play animated GIF | <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/images\/2022\/02\/220222_radar_suomiNPP_viirs_trueColorRGB_falseColorRGB_KS_lake_effect_snow_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4<\/strong><\/a>]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIIRS True Color and False Color RGB images from Suomi-NPP and NOAA-20 (above) revealed narrow swaths of lake effect snow cover &#8212; which appeared as shades of cyan in the False Color images &#8212; downwind of Milford Lake (located NW of Junction City) and Turtle Creek Lake (located NNW of Manhattan) in northeastern Kansas on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":44785,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,49,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-noaa-20","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44778"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48333,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44778\/revisions\/48333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}